Sorin Oprescu_ Process Engineer

With a Chemical Engineering background, looking for openings in O&G Processing Engineering and Operations in O&G Industry. Interested in enhancing competencies in designing of Up & Downstream Processes and exposing to innovative technologies.

7 years in Oil Refinery Operations (Crude Atmospheric & Vacuum Dist., FCCU & HF Alkylation, Catalytic Reforming & Nafta Hydrotreating, Gas Fractionating, Aromatics Separation, Delayed Coking, Sulphur Recovery). Plant commissioning, start-up and test run, troubleshooting, environmental protection, corrosion prevention.

5 years in Upstream Oil & Gas Process Engineering (Design & Operations). Conceptual, front end detailed process design of Upstream facilities (gas compressing and artificial oil lifting, gas dehydration, dew pointing & sweetening, oil dehydration, desalting and separation, water treatment & injection, oil & gas gathering Stations, Oil Stabilisation & Fractionation, NGL/LPG processing). Process control & safeguarding systems. Good exposure to HAZOP and IPF reviews.

12 years in Downstream Oil & Gas Process Engineering (Concept and Design). Conceptual and basic design of the new oil and gas processing plants and optimizing the operating conditions of the existing units in Romanian refineries. Dealt with mass and heat balances, process simulations, physical properties prediction, sizing, rating and duty specification for fired heaters, heater exchangers, compressors, pumps, turbo-expanders, reactors, vessels, distillation and absorbtion/desorbtion columns, adsorbers etc). Issuing flowsheets, PFD’s and P&ID‘s, preparing equipment specifications and data sheets. Established Operating, Control and Shutdown Philosophy, prepared Operating Manuals. Participated in the HAZOP Team. Involved in environmental protection, energy conservation, separation processes, advanced control systems, project management. Good knowledge of basic data and phase behaviours, equation of states, phase envelopes of gas, condensates and oil cuts.

2.7 years in Water producing and treatment environment. Water wells, desalination plants, reversal osmosis and electro-dialysis reversal sourcing. Treating facilities in oilfields, water remineralization, sour water stripping and water treatment in oil refineries, shallow and deep water disposal in oilfields.

8 years of international exposure in Europe (Germany, Italy) Asia (Malaysia ), Africa (Libya), Middle East (UAE, Oman) in Up&Downstream Oil& Gas Processes Design and Operations. Taken part in works of 9 International prestigious Projects.

Education
1993 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY : Petroleum & Gas University Ploiesti, Petroleum & Gas Processing and Petrochemistry Dept., Ploiesti.
1980 MASTER OF SCIENCE : Petroleum and Gas University Ploiesti, Petroleum & Gas Processing and Petrochemistry Dept.,
1988 POSTGRADUATE COURSE : Modelling and Simulation of the Chemical Processes.
1995 POSTDOCTORAL COURSE : Experimental Investigations of Multiphase High-Pressure Equilibria in the Carbon Dioxide-Water-(1-Propanol) System Kaiserslautern University, Germany
1996 TRAINING WORKSHOP : Process Integration - Distillation, held by Chemical Engineering Dept of Polytechnic University Bucharest in cooperation with University of Manchester, U.K.
1994 Designing of Quality Systems, Bucharest, held by Conteca’ 94, certified by German Quality Association and European Quality Organisation affiliated.

Other qualifications
Experienced with products quality control by on-line analysers and lab testing methods. Skilled to check the quality of crude oils, various petroleum cuts and water streams. Developed new test methods and carried statistical processing of the experimental data. Performed Engineering reports, presented and published technical papers. Advised M. Sc. Thesis and worked out 3 Patents.